EP1872802A1 - Système de conformité de lavage des mains - Google Patents

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EP1872802A1
EP1872802A1 EP07252636A EP07252636A EP1872802A1 EP 1872802 A1 EP1872802 A1 EP 1872802A1 EP 07252636 A EP07252636 A EP 07252636A EP 07252636 A EP07252636 A EP 07252636A EP 1872802 A1 EP1872802 A1 EP 1872802A1
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Vishnu R. Raja
Szu-Min Lin
Robert Platt
Brent Jacobson
Josh Hagerman
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61L—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES
    • A61L2/00—Methods or apparatus for disinfecting or sterilising materials or objects other than foodstuffs or contact lenses; Accessories therefor
    • A61L2/16—Methods or apparatus for disinfecting or sterilising materials or objects other than foodstuffs or contact lenses; Accessories therefor using chemical substances
    • A61L2/18—Liquid substances or solutions comprising solids or dissolved gases
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    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
    • G08B21/18—Status alarms
    • G08B21/24—Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
    • G08B21/245—Reminder of hygiene compliance policies, e.g. of washing hands
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    • G16H—HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
    • G16H40/00—ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities; ICT specially adapted for the management or operation of medical equipment or devices
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  • This application relates to monitoring of hand washing and decontamination, and in particular monitoring of hand washing and decontamination in a healthcare environment.
  • a system provides for evaluating hand hygiene compliance in a medical care facility,.
  • the system comprises a plurality of patient stations; a plurality of hand hygiene stations; personnel tags for personnel in the medical care facility; readers at the patient stations and at the hand decontamination stations capable of detecting the presence of personnel tags; and control means for detecting whether a personnel tag accessed a hand decontamination station before presence at one of the patient stations.
  • the patient stations typically would comprise beds, but also can include procedure tables, examination tables, dentist chairs and any other location where interactions occur between patients and healthcare workers.
  • each patient station will have a unique patient station identifier and each personnel tag will have a unique personnel identifier, making possible the tracking of specific patient healthcare worker interactions.
  • Individual hand hygiene stations can also bear unique identifiers. If a hand hygiene station were located too long of a distance from patient station presence there may not be considered sufficient for a subsequent patient interaction a the patient station.
  • Hand hygiene stations can include hand washing stations, such as a sink with a soap dispenser, can also include anti-microbial hand rub dispensers. Preferably, they also include an actuation sensor for sensing not just presence but actual use of the hand hygiene station, the actuation sensor being linked to the control means.
  • the personnel tags comprise a machine readable sensor such as an RFID tag.
  • Hand hygiene status of a user bearing the personnel tag is preferably stored on the personnel tag itself but can also be stored on a central processor linked to multiple patient stations and one or more hand hygiene stations.
  • the central processor can generate reports of compliance rates. Such reports might be averaged for the facility or specific to individual healthcare workers. They can include the number of patient interactions, the number of patient interactions where proper hand hygiene was practices the number of interactions where proper hand hygiene was not practiced and whether proper hand hygiene was practiced after a patient interaction.
  • the patient stations incorporate some form of alarm which can provide a warning if a personnel tag having a status other than "clean" approaches the patient station.
  • the warning can be both audible and visual.
  • means are provided for defining a perimeter about the patient station within which the personnel tag is considered present at the patient station.
  • the personnel tags comprise a status indicator to indicate the hand hygiene status of its bearer.
  • a status indicator can provides a visual indication of the hand hygiene status and also provide an audible indication of a change in status, or an audible warning of improper patient contact.
  • a method according to the present invention provides for evaluating hand hygiene compliance in a medical care facility.
  • the method comprises the steps of: tagging personnel in such facility with a personnel tag; detecting presence of personnel tags at hand hygiene stations within the facility; detecting presence of personnel tags at patient stations; and determining whether a person tagged with a personnel tag has visited a hand hygiene station prior to visiting a patient station.
  • the method preferably stores a hand hygiene status of a user, such as "clean” or “potentially contaminated.” This status changes from “clean” after contact with a patient. It will also change from “clean” after a predetermined time regardless of patient contact.
  • An alternative system provides for evaluating hand hygiene compliance in a medical facility.
  • the system comprises: personnel tags for patients and for healthcare workers within the facility; sensors for determining a location of the personnel tags; and a controller programmed to detect whether a healthcare worker bearing one of the personnel tags accessed a hand hygiene station prior to contacting a patient bearing a separate one of the personnel tags.
  • Hygiene tags can be provided at the hand hygiene stations within the facility. Alternatively, their locations can be programmed in. Tags are beneficial for stations which might be mobile.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a hand hygiene compliance system 10 for a healthcare facility.
  • Persons within the facility such as a doctor 12, nurse 14 or visitor 16 are each provided with a personnel tag 18, which preferably incorporates a unique identifying number but may not for privacy reasons.
  • the tag 18 preferably incorporates some form of proximity locator or local communication means.
  • the tag 18 incorporates a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tag 20.
  • RFID Radio Frequency IDentification
  • Patient contact locations such as hospital bed 22 are provided with a patient location module 23 comprising sensors 24 to detect the approach of persons such as a nurse 14 or the approach of the tag 18.
  • sensors 24 to detect the approach of persons such as a nurse 14 or the approach of the tag 18.
  • Multiple sensors 24 and a sensors of different types could be employed.
  • a passive infrared radiation (IR) sensor 26 which detects the approach of a person can be employed along with an RFID transceiver 28 for reading the RFID tag 20 in the personnel tag 18. This would allow the RFID transceiver to remain off until the bed 22 is approached, saving energy and reducing electromagnetic noise in the environment.
  • IR passive infrared radiation
  • perimeter is preferably defined about a patient station. In a simple form it can be the location of the RFID transceiver 28 on the station with the RFID transceiver having a range equivalent to the desired perimeter.
  • the perimeter is preferably about one or two feet from the patient station. If it is too far it might falsely register a contact and if it is too small it might fail to register a contact.
  • Other means for defining a perimeter such as light beams broken via personnel approaching a patient station may also be employed if a more exactly defined perimeter is desired.
  • RFID tags 20 are particularly suitable for this application as they are inexpensive, can be read at a distance and some types can have data written to them and updated.
  • the patient contact location is not limited to beds, but might also include procedure tables, examination tables, dental chairs, gurneys and any location at which a health care worker is likely to come into contact with a patient. These locations may be mobile, such as gurneys.
  • Hand hygiene stations 30 (such as an antimicrobial hand rub dispenser 32 or hand wash station 34 such as a sink with running water and a supply of soap or detergent for hand washing) are provided with hand hygiene station modules 31 having an RFID transceiver 36.
  • US Patent No. 5,997,893 to Jampani et al. incorporated herein by reference, discloses a particularly suitable anti-microbial hand rub formulation.
  • the RFID transceivers 28 and 36 are all tied through some form of communication to a central data processing station 40. That communication could take the form of a hard-wired connection or some other form such as radio frequency communication. In an institution having an 802.11b or 802.11g or similar type of WiFi based networking or communication system the RFI transceivers 28 and 36 could communicate to the central processing station 40 through such network. A dedicated communication system could also be employed. Passive IR personnel detectors 38 can be employed at the hand hygiene stations 30 as well.
  • Hand hygiene stations 30, especially hand rub dispensers 32 can be mobile. They can be mounted on wheels or carried on a person such as is disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 5,927,548 to Villaveces , incorporated herein by reference.
  • the hand hygiene compliance system 10 employs the RFID transceivers 28 and 36 along with the personnel tags 18 to help ensure that a person who approaches a patient location has either washed their hands or applied an antimicrobial hand rub to reduce the chance of infecting a patient.
  • This can be implemented in many different fashions.
  • One simple implementation would detect the person's presence at a hand hygiene station 30 and then signal either to the RFID tag 20 or to the central processor 40, or to both, that the person's status was now "clean.” Then when that person approached a hospital bed 22 the RFID transceiver 28 associated therewith would read the RFID tag 20 in the personnel tag 18. If the status was directly encoded within the RFID tag 20 it would be read directly by the RFID transceiver 28, otherwise a unique ID associated with that RFID tag 20 would be queried back to the central processor 40 which would return the status "clean.”
  • the patient location module 23 incorporates a display 42 of some fashion with an audio output device 44.
  • the display 32 could be as simple as one or more color-coded lights, preferably labeled, or more complex such as an LCD panel. Therefore, when the person approached the patient bed 22 the display 42 would indicate such as by a green light or display of the status "clean" that the person had attended to hand hygiene prior to visiting that hospital bed 22.
  • the patient location module 23 will indicate a warning.
  • the warning would include either a warning light or a warning message on the display 42 and an audio alert such as a buzzer or more preferably voice instructions to attend to hand hygiene.
  • the RFID tag 20 After leaving the patient bed 22, the RFID tag 20 would now have the status "potentially contaminated”. The status "potentially contaminated” would also apply when there had not been previous contact with a hand hygiene station 30. Status would be changed back to "clean” upon visitation of a hand hygiene station 30. The "clean" status would be effective for a specified period of time assuming there is no further contact with patient locations. In more elaborate implementations of the invention sensors such as the RFID transceiver 28 could be placed in other locations within a facility which could be possible sources of contamination and contact therewith would change a status from "clean" to "potentially contaminated”.
  • Methods are potentially included to allow a personnel tag 18 to move away from a patient bed 22 and return to that same bed 22 without having the status register as "potentially contaminated.” This would allow, for instance, a nurse 14 to move about a patient's room without having the status change, or at least the status as respect to that particular patient bed 22. Preferably a time limit would be implemented so that even if the nurse 14 re-approaches the bed 22 after that time limit the status registers as "potentially contaminated.”
  • compliance rates for various personnel can be tracked.
  • the tracking can be performed on the RFID tag 20 itself or at the central processor 40.
  • Reports can be generated and used to help personnel improve their compliance. Such reports might include the number of times such personnel approached a patient location with a status other than "clean" within a given time period. It could also track which patients were approached and be compared against patient records to track transmission of infections within the institution. Penalties or bonus can be awarded personnel based upon compliance.
  • the system 10 preferably checks whether such person then proceeds to a hand hygiene station 30 or continues with patient contact.
  • An exception in this area may be flagged with a higher priority by the system 10, and can be identified by comparing time present at the bed 22, time to the next appearance at a hand hygiene station 30 and possibly whether such personnel then return to the same bed 22. For instance, spending more than five or ten seconds at the bed 22 in a state other than "clean" might constitute an egregious violation.
  • Compliance at a hand hygiene station 30 can either be assumed by presence, assumed by presence for a given amount of time or verified with a sensor 46 at the hand hygiene station 30 such as a sensor 30 which reads when soap is dispensed at a hand wash station 34 or a sensor 30 which reads when an antimicrobial hand gel has been dispensed at a hand rub dispenser 32.
  • a sensor 46 at the hand hygiene station 30 such as a sensor 30 which reads when soap is dispensed at a hand wash station 34 or a sensor 30 which reads when an antimicrobial hand gel has been dispensed at a hand rub dispenser 32.
  • Such sensors 46 would be important when the hand hygiene station 30 comprises a portable antimicrobial hand rub dispenser 32 worn on the body of the user.
  • Hand hygiene procedures typically require a certain length of scrubbing at hand wash stations 34 and the time of water running after dispensing of the soap might also be measured.
  • a proximity sensor especially one already used to turn on water flow, might also be polled to see if hands are in the stream of the water.
  • Many faucets already incorporate such sensors.
  • the personnel tags 18 can further incorporate audio and visual displays. For instance it might bear a light which changes color or separate lights 50 and 52 for each status and a beeper 54 which emits a tone upon a change in status (see FIG. 2). In such instance they preferably incorporated powered RFID tags 56 which have improved communication ranges over passive RFID tags and a common power source could power all of the features of such tags 18.
  • an alternative embodiment of a hand hygiene compliance system 58 would employ multiple detectors 60 throughout a facility which would read and located personnel tags 62.
  • a person's exact location within a facility would be tracked.
  • Patients also would have personnel tags 62. With such a system proximity between personnel tags 62 could be tracked.
  • a personnel tag 62 assigned to a doctor 12, nurse 14 or visitor 16 approached a personnel tag 62 assigned to a patient in a status other than "clean" a violation could be registered.
  • a tag 62 would incorporate its own warning system such as the audio and visual displays of the tag 18 shown in FIG. 2. Therefore contact away from traditional patient locations such as beds 22 could be tracked.
  • a hand hygiene station 30 would have its own tag 64, or its location could just be programmed into a central processing controller 66. Proximity to the hand hygiene station 30 would change status to "clean..” The more elaborate procedures mentioned before could also be employed.
  • the readiness of the hand hygiene station 30 could be tracked. If it is a hand wash station 34 the level of hand soap in a dispenser could be tracked with a level sensor 68. If it is a hand rub dispenser 32 the amount of hand rub could be similarly watched with a level sensor 68, preferably in communication with the central processing controller 40 or 66. Rather than a level sensor 68, if a dispenser 32 were to dispense an accurate amount with each actuation the number of actuations as monitored by the actuation sensor 46 could be counted. Upon emptying a message to refill the dispenser 32 could be generated to appropriate personnel. Shelf life could similarly be monitored, and even incorporate a temperature sensor (not shown) to adjust for temperature effects upon shelf life. Upon expiration of shelf life a warning could be generated to appropriate personnel.

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